NEW YORK  Bill Hemmer, dumped last month by CNN as co-host of its morning show, has joined archrival Fox News Channel as a daytime anchor.

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Once one of CNN's rising stars, Hemmer was called the "chad lad" following his coverage of the Florida recount in 2000. CNN paired him with Paula Zahn as American Morning co-host in 2002, before she was replaced by Soledad O'Brien.

CNN said it wanted to "improve the chemistry" in the morning when it replaced Hemmer with Miles O'Brien this spring. The New York-based Hemmer was reportedly offered a White House correspondent's job at CNN but declined.

A Cincinnati native, Hemmer began his career as a weekend sports anchor in that city.

Hemmer will be a correspondent along with anchoring daytime news coverage, Fox said Tuesday.

He is awesome and a Conservative. Doesn't everyone remember how he dissed Michael Moore at the RAT convention? It was priceless! I hope they can all of the "Fox and Friends" idiots (ok, they can keep Brian)

He's pretty light weight. No Brit Hume that's for sure, but I have seen Hemmer ask libs questions they didn't want to be asked. The nuts at DU hate him which can only say good things about his character.

From what I hear, Hemmer is a good guy...smooth, versatile and talented. His "sin" at CNN was running afoul of that network's new president Jonathan "Pajamas" Klein. Apparently, Klein didn't think Hemmer had enough gravitas, so he replaced him with the terminally dull Miles O'Brien.

Hemmer won't have the visibility he had at CNN (at least initially), but I can envision him filling in on the morning programs, during daytime coverage and occasionally for Shep Smith. BTW, I heard MSNBC was offering him a slightly better deal, but Hemmer apparently decided to go with a winner instead of the #4 cable network.

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